MELLITAEA DIAMINA
| English name: | False Heath Fritillary. |
| Norwegian name: | Mørk rutevinge |
| Auctor: | (Lang, 1789) |
| Original description: | as Papilio diamina in Verzeichniß Schmett. Gegend Augsburg (Ed. 2) : 44. |
| Syn.: | - - - |
| Type locality of nominate species: | Around Augsburg, Germany. |
| Worldwide distribution: | Central Europe and South Fennoscandia to South Siberia, Ussuri, |
| Mongolia, NE China and North Korea and Japan. | |
| Subspecies in Norway: | M.d.hebe. |
| Etymology: | Eliasson, Ryrholm & Gärdenfors suggest the name diamina is combined by the Greek word dia (diva) |
| (deity) and the Latin word mina (a word for measure of weight). |
M. diamina hebe | |
| Auctor: | (Borkhausen, 1793) |
| Original description: | as Papilio hebe in Rheinisches Magazin Naturkunde 1 : 270. |
| Syn.: | dictynna (Esper, [1777]) (nom. praeocc). |
| Type locality of subspecies: | ?Erlangen, Germany. |
| Distribution in Norway: | South Norway. |
| Notes: | Hesselbarth, van Oorschot & Wagener (1995) placed M.diamina hebe as a synonym of M.diamina diamina. |
| Swedish specimens of M.diamina corresponds to ssp. hebe by having well developed dark pattern and a | |
| whitish colour of spots in wing centre of females. M.diamina from Larvik area (Norway, VE) are close to | Swedish specimens, while M.diamina from West Norway and Buskerud-Østfold are quite different, often difficult | separate from M.athalia lachares. |
| Described forms found in Norway: | - - - |
| Etymology: | - - - |
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MELITAEA DIAMINA ssp from Norway |
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Specimen |
Kommune |
Coll. date |
Legit |
In coll. |
Remarks | ||
| 1 | 17 | TEI | Kviteseid | 15-JUN-2003 | Tony Nagypal | TN | |
| 2 | 10 | VE | Larvik | 01-JUL-1991 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | |
| 3 | 10 | VE | Larvik | 01-JUL-1991 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | |
| 4 | 10 | VE | Larvik | 30-JUN-1991 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | Ventral view |
| 5 | 28 | BØ | Drammen | 22-JUN-1989 | Tony Nagypal | TN | Ventral view |
| 6 | 17 | TEI | Kviteseid | 15-JUN-2003 | Tony Nagypal | TN | Ventral view |
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For comparison: MELITAEA DIAMINA HEBE from Sweden |
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| 7 | Kalmar | Öland | 27-JUN-1984 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | ||
| 8 | Kalmar | Öland | 27-JUN-1984 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | ||
| 9 | Kalmar | Öland | 27-JUN-1981 | Torbjørn Pedersen | TN | ||
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